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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-25. Revised by … English localities and place-names figuring in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage: Also see ⁃ Yew Tree (Doveridge) ⁃ Place-names in ballads.763 bytes (87 words) - 16:58, 17 May 2022
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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-25. Revised by … English localities and place-names figuring in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage: Also see ⁃ Yew Tree (Doveridge) ⁃ Place-names in ballads.763 bytes (87 words) - 16:58, 17 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-25. Revised by … information courtesy Tim Prevett, MA, producer, consultant and lecturer on slow TV. The central part of the action of the ballad Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage takes place in the village or small town of Tutbury in Staffordshire. References to 'Titbury feast' and a bull being bated by bagpipers (see Quotations below) make it clear that the imagined occasion was the infamous Tutbury bull run, which took place annually on August 16 or 17. Evidently already an established custom by 1414, this 'sport' took place in connection with the annual Court of Minstrels, 'a ceremonial legal proceeding for travelling musicians in the nearby counties'. Wikipedia: Tutbury bull run. Tutbury Priory, and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Duke of Devonshire, provided a bull which was chased through town by the minstrels, later by residents of adjacent parts of Staffordshire and Derbyshire in general. Once caught, …5 KB (773 words) - 01:17, 13 February 2021
- Doveridge. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-25. Revised by … Doveridge in Derbyshire, near the Derbyshire–Staffordshire border, has a slight claim to Robin Hood-related fame in that it was the town which supplied the priest for the wedding of Robin Hood and Clorinda, queen of shepherds, in the ballad of Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage. in st. 37 of that ballad, Robin Hood proposes to the irresistible Clorinda and immediately upon receiving her favourable reply, in st. 38, suggests that a priest be sent for so they can be married right away. However, Clorinda first wishes to go to 'Titbury feast' (st. 39), a feast day or popular festival at Tutbury, together with her future husband and his entourage, which includes the trusty Little John. En route they are accosted by eight yeomen who, however, prove no match for Robin and John. Not until st. 49, therefore: When dinner was ended, Sir Roger, the parson Of Dubbridge, was sent for in haste; He brought his …5 KB (672 words) - 00:59, 13 February 2021
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-24. Revised by … information courtesy Tim Prevett. Tim produces, and is a consultant on, slow TV. According to a local tradition inspired by the ballad of Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were betrothed under the ample branches of an old, large and still living yew tree in the churchyard in Doveridge. This famous tree, now supported by props and chains, is widely believed to be at least a thousand years old, but since its heartwood has seriously decayed, it is difficult to determine its age. Geograph: SK1134:: The Doveridge Yew – Trunk. While there may … records of this, the earliest source known to IRHB to connect the yew with Robin Hood is a pamphlet on the history of the church of St Cuthbert and its churchyard published in 1986. Middleton, Jane 1986a. Not seen, but cf. Ancient Yew Group: Doveridge, St Cuthbert's, Diocese of Derby, SK11383410. in Robin Hood's Birth, …6 KB (765 words) - 01:17, 13 February 2021
- Wakefield. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Wakefield is now the centre of the large metropolitan district known as the City of Wakefield, but in the late Middle Ages it was a small town or large village. It is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) where it occurs as Wachefeld. Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a, … this etymology, but then decides that "wake" probably was from OE "wacu", meaning a "watch" or "wake", and that therefore the name referred to an annual feast or festival held at Wakefield. However, there is no evidence whatsoever for such a festival in the pre-Conquest period. As the first suggestion assumes less, I think it should be adopted. The Pinder of Wakefield Perhaps Wakefield's most famous citizen during the early modern period was the legendary Pinder, George à Greene, the hero of the ballad of …4 KB (530 words) - 00:43, 6 January 2021
- Loxley, near Bramshall. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-15. Revised by … Allusion LOCHELER, OR LOCKESLEIA. A junior Ferrers of Tutbury held Loxley, which is about two miles west of Uttoxeter, in Henry II.'s reign, and in the time of Henry III. it belonged to Robert de Ferrers. in 1327 John de Kynardesleye married Johanna, daughter to a second Thomas de … Kynnersley, twenty-second Charles I.; Craven Kynnersley, seven George II.; and Clement Kynnersley, ten George III., were sheriffs. An ancestor of the … Conquest. There is a horn preserved at Loxley, with the proud name of " Robin Hood's Horn," which was formerly in the family of Ferrers, at Chartly. There is no particular reason given for its being Robin Hood's Horn, although it bears his initials; but from bearing three horse-shoes (two and one) it probably belonged to the Ferrars, and …6 KB (847 words) - 04:48, 17 January 2021
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Editions Scholarly collections ⁃ Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. III, pp. 214-17. Notes on matter in the ballad St. 46: the ballad of Arthur-a-Bradley.] Richard Braithwaite alludes to this ballad in "To the Cottoneers" in his Strappado for the Devil: Brief mention ⁃ Stockton, Edwin L 1962a, see pp 41-42, 42. Also see ⁃ Place-names in Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage. Notes2 KB (336 words) - 05:21, 27 May 2022
- Sherwood Forest. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Sherwood Forest is the home of the outlaws in about half of the early tales and most later sources. The first source to put Robin Hood in Sherwood is 1401 - Anonymous - Lincoln Cathedral MS 132 (c. 1401-25) (see Allusions below). The place-name is first recorded in A.D. 955 (as "scirwuda"). The form "Sherewoode" is found 1325-1500. The most probable etymology is "wood belonging to the shire". See Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a, p. 10; Smith, Albert Hugh 1970b, pt. II, pp. 110-11. For literature on King John's Palace in Sherwood, see Robin Hood Close (King's Clipstone). Quotations Sherwood Forest in the ballads Sources ⁃ Anonymous 1966a. ⁃ Gilchrist, Robert Murray 1913a, [ch. 2:] 'Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood' (pp. 13-24). ⁃ Leland, John 1906a, vol. I, p. 94. Maps ⁃ List of printed and MS maps at: Sherwood Forest: Cartographic (Nottinghamshire Heritage …10 KB (1,301 words) - 20:24, 8 January 2021
- Loxley, near Bramshall. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-18. Revised by … Allusion LOCHELER, OR LOCKESLEID. Loxley, in the parish of Uttoxeter, on the west, is an old Saxon name, and a place of considerable interest. It was a grant from the Crown to Robert de Ferrars, first Earl of Derby, who died in 1184. By the second Earl William, it was granted to his younger son Wakelin, and it was held by a Robert, an Alan, a Thomas, and Henry. From an inquisition taken after 1297, it appears that Loxley manor was held by the heirs … was exchanged by Thomas with his brother for Loxley. There is a blank here in this branch for one generation at least, and therefore the second Thomas, whose daughter Johanna, as sole heiress, brought Loxley to the Kynersleys by Marriage in 1327 with John de Kynnardsley, must have been of a third generation from the first Thomas. in …12 KB (1,892 words) - 04:48, 17 January 2021